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People are wonderful, surprising creatures. Their memories are even more so. This is true both in terms of their capacity to recall small, obscure details over many decades and also often in the ways that the content of the memories themselves can force us to rethink what we thought we knew of an era. One…

Aviemore and Inverness are very different places in which I attended very different events. In Aviemore, a small town in the Cairngorms National Park that caters to tourists interested in outdoor pursuits, I was lucky enough to be able to be at a birthday party to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Screen Machine, the mobile…

Yesterday saw the first film screening of the Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s project’s tour of Scotland. It was something I’d been looking forward to since I started planning this research trip across the Highlands in spring, not least because it was my first opportunity to ask people who live in rural…

UCL History’s Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s project has hit the road! I’m going to be in Scotland for the next two weeks, hosting special screenings of 1960s films and collecting local memories of going to the pictures at a time when the world faced the possibility of nuclear war and humanity…

Spend a moment imagining a busy street in 1960s Britain. What does it look like? What does it sound like? What are people wearing? For many, the street will be full of women in miniskirts and men in flares. The colours will be vivid and the sound of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones will…